Personal Trainer, Partner, or Simply Having an Audience - Three Ways of Boosting Training Intensity, Volume & Gainz
Ideally, your training partner is both competitive and supportive... and if there's no one around just asking the next best person to spot you will make a significant difference, too. Are you training with a coach or partner? No? Well, after reading today's SuppVersity Special , you may want to get one; and that despite the fact that we know only relatively little about the effect of the presence of a training partner, coach or, as investigated most recently, a spotter on our exercise performance, yet. In a recent study from the Edge Hill University in the UK, Sheridan et al. investigated the effect of spotter presence on bench press performance. To this ends, twelve recreationally trained participants (age, 21.3 +/- 0.8 years, height, 1.82 +/- 0.1 m, and weight, 84.8 +/- 11.1 kg) performed 2 trials of 3 sets to failure at 60% of 1 repetition maximum on separate occasions. Even for people who know what they're doing a partner or coach may be very helpful. 30...
